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...ballot box, but it sure is on the idiot box. And you have to wonder if the same advisers who directed Bush to smile and Kerry to target working moms might not want to throw some ads toward Wisteria Lane. In this discontented autumn, the poll margins are razor-thin. And not only the housewives are desperate...
...chances that the Crimson can confine Hartigan—who led the Ivy League in rushing last season—to his own backfield are razor-thin. Ensuring that the damage he causes is minimized, however, will ultimately dictate whether or not the Harvard defense can call tomorrow’s efforts successful...
...definition of national territory; and the notable omission of his often repeated phrase, condemned by Beijing, of "one country on either side of the Taiwan Strait"-were the result of intense negotiations between Washington and Taipei after Chen won Taiwan's bitterly contested presidential polls by a razor-thin majority in March. "We spent a great deal of time with the Taiwanese, talking about what we thought was constructive," says a senior U.S. State Department official...
According to the University of Illinois study, a razor-thin majority of librarians who encountered information requests from law enforcement agents did not cooperate. Similar data has been shown in more local studies. The data is ambiguous, though, since it’s difficult to distinguish how many of these cases fall under the provisions of Section...
...difference when the regatta’s final stroke broke the water proved equally razor-thin, but oh so much more meaningful than those preliminary armchair estimates as the No. 1 Midshipmen capped their comeback push with a 1.1-second victory over the No. 2 Crimson, while No. 12 Boston College finished a distant third...